Ask HN: Estimating hosting costs All, Does anyone have experience or tips on how to estimate hosting, bandwidth, etc. costs for a web-based business model? I'm working up a back-of-the-napkin business plan and would like to be able to throw something at the hosting costs column. The margins are somewhat tight at it is, and I know how these sorts of costs, specifically, can completely up end profitability. I'm figuring about 15-30 MB of images per user, plus whatever it costs to receive those images one at a time (RESTful interface), then batch process them once a month (cron job + sending them off to some other RESTful interface). Then, of course, there'd be some billing logic in there, maybe Stripe. I'm thinking this would involve something like AWS, plus, I don't know, dreamhost, perhaps? Sorry, I know this is vague (and that's part of the problem), but I've never estimated something like this before. I'd really appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks! |